Medvedev noted that the issue of preserving Lake Baikal in the framework of the national project "Ecology" is not easy to solve due to the slow pace of reconstruction of treatment facilities.
“The reason is the reconstruction of wastewater treatment plants, it is proceeding very slowly, at an unacceptably slow pace in the territory of Buryatia,” Interfax quotes him.
The Russian prime minister also added that the necessary design estimates were still not developed.
“So far, design estimates have not been developed that are necessary to launch measures to eliminate previously caused damage from the work of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (pulp and paper mill. - RT ),” Medvedev emphasized.
In mid-October, the Russian President’s special envoy for environmental protection, ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, in an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty website called the absence of treatment facilities in the housing and communal services as the main environmental problem for Baikal.